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Yukon Psychology Regulation: Briefing for Candidates

Purpose: To outline current regulatory barriers limiting Yukoners’ access to psychological services and to request each party’s position and plan of action.

Goal: Ensure a sustainable and locally trained psychology workforce with uninterrupted access to care for Yukoners.

1. Practice Restrictions
Psychologists who previously practiced autonomously elsewhere in Canada are having diagnostic authority restricted after registering in Yukon.

Yukon offers no supervised practice pathway or alternative competency assessment to remove these restrictions.

Currently, 36.7% of Yukon-registered psychologists are restricted from conducting formal assessments.

This reduces access to care and discourages psychologists from maintaining Yukon licensure.

Candidate question: What will your party do to create a reasonable pathway in a timely manner to full licensure so Yukoners are not losing access to psychological services?

2. Interjurisdictional Telepsychology

Yukon is the only jurisdiction in Canada that prevents psychologists from offering interjurisdictional telepsychology without the added burden of full registration in that jurisdiction, even when it is not required (i.e., in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Quebec).

Other provinces/territories use MOUs or mobility provisions allowing psychologists to continue treating their clients when they temporarily relocate.

Current policy prevents psychologists from supporting Yukon clients when they travel (e.g., for medical, family reasons, to access further training, etc.).

Candidate question: What will your party do to ensure Yukoners have continuous care from their psychologists and to ensure that they are not disadvantaged compared to the rest of Canada, where labour mobility restrictions are being reduced instead of tightened?

3. Provisional Registration

Although permitted under regulation, provisional registration is not operationalized.

No path exists for new psychology graduates in Yukon to become licensed locally.

Prospective psychologists must leave the territory to obtain supervised practice hours and licensure.

Candidate question: What is your party’s plan to implement provisional registration so new graduates can complete training and licensure within Yukon? ... See MoreSee Less